Asia

Sensex tanks 306 pts; HDFC twins sink

5:35 pm July 22, 2019

Mumbai: Extending losses for the third consecutive session, market benchmark BSE Sensex tumbled 306 points at close on Monday led by a carnage in shares of HDFC twins amid weak global cues. Unabated foreign fund outflows and a depreciating rupee too weighed on investor sentiment here, traders said. The 30-share index cracked 305.88 points or […]

UK minister in charge of India suspended amid assault claim

6:25 pm June 21, 2019

London: A minister in charge of India in the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was suspended on Friday after footage showed him grabbing and forcibly ejecting a climate activist at a political event in London. Mark Field, Britain’s minister of state for Asia and the Pacific, was a guest at the formal black-tie dinner […]

UN rights chief says troubled by Hong Kong violence

China says UN rights chief ‘always’ welcome in Xinjiang

5:32 pm June 13, 2019

Geneva: China said Thursday that the UN human rights chief had an open invitation to visit Xinjiang, a region where some one million mostly Muslim minorities are held in internment camps. Beijing’s new ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Chen Xu, reiterated the government’s denial of the existence of camps there, insisting the region had “vocational education training”, especially for youth […]

New Sino-Nepal friendship bridge comes into operation

8:30 pm June 7, 2019

Kathmandu: A new Sino-Nepal “friendship bridge” that links the Himalayan nation with Tibet has been formally opened to traffic, four years after the old bridge was damaged in the massive 2015 earthquake. The Nepal-China Friendship Bridge (Miteri bridge) was constructed with Chinese aid at the Rasuwagadhi border point in Rasuwa district after the old bridge was damaged in the earthquake. The new bridge was […]

Hong Kong court issues landmark ruling on benefits for gay couples

1:47 pm June 6, 2019

Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s top court ordered the government to grant spousal rights and benefits to the husband of a gay civil servant who married overseas, in a new landmark ruling for LGBT rights on Thursday. The judgement, handed down by the Court of Final Appeal, is the latest instance where the judiciary has found […]